Each is carefully metrically ordered into iambic tetrameter with trochaic substitutions in the first foot of the apostrophizing lines (which begin the first, second, and final stanzas), to appropriately interruptive effect.

Epistemologically, Elia's predicament is similar to that of the speaker in the Romantic ode: apostrophizing a figure who is absent or unresponsive, he is compelled to reflect on the "presumption" that underlies all acts of communication.

For example, Italy has focused its campaign on apostrophizing the economic operator of the European Union and the political parties have a wide variety of applications, from reforming the monetary and financial policies of the European Central Bank to the actual exit from the Eurozone and return to old Italian lira.

It seems perversely appropriate, therefore, that the ongoing superscriptive apostrophizing commentary should alternate between pathos and bathos, between the augmentative and the diminutive, between the condescending and the soothing: Poor Wakefield

At the same time, by apostrophizing entities of herself, in an address to "the voice" or to "my music," Webster can draw attention to the mother's ever-impending absence and to the melancholy of this knowledge even when she depicts moments full of presence and youth.

By contrast, Wright develops a style of prayer-poetry more akin to that of Hopkins, a priest-poet he calls "God-gulped and heaven-hidden," adapting his alliterative compounds and apostrophizing him in his own diction, "Father Candescence" and "Father Fire.

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